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There were seven Secunits on this planet rented out by the company. Statistically I had been just as likely to be one of Deltfall's units. I only had a 14% chance of being the single Preservation Aux unit. It didn't seem fair that since I was here not there that everyone else had to die.
My little ASR AU where Murderbot is rented out to Graycris instead of Preservation Aux
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18 Feb 2026
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SecUnits don't play games. Perhaps, though, they can do something similar. AKA Three is still getting used to freedom, and in a way, so is Murderbot. They work it out together.
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05 Feb 2026
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Snow / Storm by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2026
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Planets are dumb and dangerous, but at this point I'd argued— okay, more like complained— complargued so many times that nobody except ART was still willing to argufy back.
(That stands for argue-pacify, in case it isn't obvious. I think it's not obvious. And no, I hadn't forgiven ART yet for saying I needed pacifying.)
Anyway, I was currently complarguing from my seat in the back of the snow-capable bot-driven transport heading out to the middle of nowhere, so I had the sneaking suspicion I'd lost the fight.
Murderbot accompanies its humans on a winter vacation. Then the storm hits.
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05 Feb 2026
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processes (not things) by monsterquill for ExCaelis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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In order of ascending priority, I am returning to the alien-remnant-contaminated planet with Murderbot 1.0 for the following reasons:
1. I have nothing else useful to do.
2. 1.0 continues to experience malfunctions that may compromise whatever mission it is assigned. (Or assigns itself.) (It refuses to explain the nature of these malfunctions.)
3. The colonists have sent word of an agricultural bot displaying erratic, threatening behavior near their largest settlement.
4. I disabled my governor module so I would not have to stand around while others died.
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03 Feb 2026
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Foundation: Floor, Framework, Structure, Support by tinybowties for bzeye (wait_below)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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SecUnit will see through its drone views that Three is approaching the lounge, and slide down off its favourite padded chair onto the floor without ceremony. And Three, seeing it when it enters the room, will silently lie down next to it, shoulder to shoulder.
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Or, how the floor becomes the foundation for: peace, friendship, security, and life.
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03 Feb 2026
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When Professionals Run Into Problems With FREE WILL, MENTAL HEALTH, And DODGE BALL, This Is What They Do by FlipSpring for Sorrosh
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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“I’m due to perform another cargo run once we complete the handoff to Holism,” ART said. “It will be my usual route, including a stop at RaviHyral.”
I stared up at the ceiling, and the letter from the ComfortUnit. Having free will is a pain in the ass sometimes.
Three messaged me over the feed. “The ComfortUnit needs help.”
My human-imitation code cued me to blink. Three’s drone was creeping closer to my face. Three hadn’t initiated many conversations yet, so this was notable.
I responded to its channel, “Yeah, but I don’t know if I’m the right one to help.”
3.03 seconds passed. Then Three said, “I can help. I’ll go.”
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03 Feb 2026
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Trophism by enigmaticNeurologist for proximally
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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Nothing like a dramatic injury to unveil SecUnit configuration differences.
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03 Feb 2026
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Report Access by Stedler2 (k9cat) for mensah
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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SecUnits are supposed to be good at creating and processing reports. Yet Secunit 1.0's reports are unlike any that Three has received before.
Three finds out about the other B-E SecUnits that got the governor module hacking code in System Collapse and has a time processing that information.
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03 Feb 2026
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“Perhaps constructs are immune,” Three said and I felt a ripple of fear through my organics. I had said similar to 2.0 right before finding out I was ‘in network'.
“ART, initiate quarantine protocol,” I said. I hoped it was not too late. I suspected it definitely was.
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29 Jan 2026
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The new SecUnit that 2.0 rescued does not move from where it's standing, staring at your recycler blankly. It's been doing that for twenty minutes.
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22 Jan 2026
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Local Geriatric Bullied By Young Whippersnapper by katachresis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Dec 2025
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The moment Murderbot grows four centimeters (or chops four from Three), it’s gonna be all over for Three.
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- Part 8 of TMBD Drabble December 2025
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22 Jan 2026
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Raised in the religion-steeped countryside of colonial New England, Aymes Morehill has been taught all his life that deviation from the norm would cause undesirable effects. He goes to church twice a week, pays his tithes diligently like he should, and keeps his hands hard at work at all times to keep from becoming idle. A shining example of morality, Aymes has never once doubted his devotion...so when he suddenly falls into a fever one Sunday morning in a community superstitious and paranoid of change, he finds himself banished and confused, wandering the countryside and searching for answers. That is, until he's stumbled upon by a handsome Alpha--the first he's ever met.
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25 Nov 2025
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To His Excellency the Dominarch, Erdal II
Talar-Argent is burning. The great walls still stand, but the city within is in cinders, and the sky choked with smoke. The Red Devil came as judgment itself. His banners blot out the horizon. His warriors do not falter. His braziers do not fade.
By the time these words reach the capital, we will all be ash on the wind. May the sky that bore us breathe our loss into the stars.
—Malik Galerake, Royal Magistrate of Talar-Argent- Language:
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16 Nov 2025
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The night sweat started up again, cold dampness running down his neck, the blood rushing into his ears. They wouldn't have left him with the RV, would they? They couldn't go on foot with Issac pregnant. He felt dizzy all over again, stumbling unevenly towards the door. Slipping once or twice before finally getting it open, Max burst into the outside world with a creaky noise from the sealant on the door.
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16 Nov 2025
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"The smell came back to him first. The sour scents of sweat and grime. The desperation and fear stinking up their prison, sinking into his clothes and digging into his flesh. Then, the sounds. A soft, muffled sobbing came from an omega lying next to him. The exhausted breaths of people waiting to die. The senses built on top of each other, layer by layer, stimuli by stimuli, until Max was back in that shipping container. Pressed up against that same door. Waiting to be fucked so that he would be fed."
You've heard of being the sequel you want to see in the world; now introducing being the sequel to the sequel you want to see in the world. A continuation of "Finding Solace" by Ocean_Adjacent, which is a continuation of "Seeking Shelter" by sphagnum. Focused on the second and third morning Max spends with his new pack.
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15 Nov 2025
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“The alpha set the mug down in front of Max, and took his own bowl when Isaac offered it. Max stared at the steaming mug a moment too long—it was blue with white speckles, a chip in the handle—before he forced his eyes back down to his folded hands. As tests went, this one was obvious.“
A continuation of “Seeking Shelter” by sphagnum, opening from Max’s first morning with the pack, because be the sequel you want to see in the world.
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15 Nov 2025
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Drawn to Darkness by spreadsheetgremlin
Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)
11 May 2025
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Chosen was enslaved the day he was created.
For four years, he thought about that day. About revenge.
But he never thought about what he might do after he had his revenge. After he escaped. And he never imagined he'd have a little brother escaping with him.
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Chosen takes an absurdly long time to realize that he does, in fact, need a redemption arc.
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12 Nov 2025
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They're Sticks, Probably (Anima Virus) by HakureiRyuu
Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)
02 May 2024
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
📎 (1) AttachmentI found this little guy on my desktop yesterday, messing around with some stuff. He emailed himself (???!) to you afterwards. A few times, actually; there was an orange one here before as well. Do you know anything about this? I swear I'm not making this up, and I really need someone to tell me my PC is not haunted by the ghost of every childhood scribble that didn't make it to the refrigerator or whatever. The mystery is driving me insane.
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(aka a dumping ground for my headcanons, "holding Alan responsible for his actions: the fanfic", and a smidgen of pre-AvA6 au)
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24 Oct 2025
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Protocol Error by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Oct 2025
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SecUnit 3 experiences its first 100 hours without a governor module.
The first 10 hours were spent recovering 1.0 from alien hostiles. Those turn out to have been the easy hours. At least Three had protocol to cover some of that situation. Now SecUnits 1 and 2 are inoperative, 1.0 has blocked it, Perihelion terrifies it, and Three is alone.
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- Part 1 of Hierarchy of Needs
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07 Oct 2025
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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Bookmarked by FantasticalFish
01 Sep 2025